continuous improvement

“Safety is an attitude.  How’s yours?”  That tagline was one I created for one of my clients as a way to get the staff and management excited and bought into the new injury prevention system that I was assisting in design and implementation.  Attitude is vitally important to success whether it’s in regards to safety, sales, marketing or performance.  A company’s attitude towards employee health, wellness and safety will go a long way into attaining zero work-related injuries.

“It was just an accident.”  “S/he made a bad judgment.”  “S/he behaved unsafely.”

Do any of those causes sound familiar to you?  We’ve all heard these or similar reasons for why an injury occurred.  However, are they the true root cause?  The “cause” for injuries or accidents is typically attributed in some way to “human error”.